Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday claimed that his Twitter account was hacked and filed a police complaint with South Avenue Police Station, New Delhi.
On the occasion of the death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi, Chowdhury quoted the former PM 's remark "when a big tree falls, the ground shakes" in the aftermath of the assassination of Indira Gandhi and the subsequent anti-Sikh riots. The Congress leader later deleted his tweet.
Chowdhury said, "The tweet against my name has nothing to do with my own observation. A malicious campaign is propagated by those forces inimical to me," he claimed.
“With all my conviction, with humilities at my command, I'm firmly stating that the tweet being quoted against my name is nothing but a malicious campaign being propagated by some unscrupulous elements, by some heinous forces who are inimical to me and my party," Chowdhury, who is also Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha stated in another tweet.
He posted another tweet with a quote from Rajiv Gandhi, "Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about the people. The goal is material culture and fulfilment for the people. The human factor is of supreme value in development”.
The party did not react to the controversy till late evening.